> As a C̶i̶s̶h̶e̶t̶ jew you will probably also have to listen more than talk when it comes to political, ethical, or policy topics within the community
The issue is if fash ever come into power they use things like that to justify their position and to make it look more reasonable than it really is.
The marginalised and the privileged should both be safe. The marginalised and the privileged should both be heard.
I think you have a funny idea of what hacker culture is. In my personal opinion self identifying as anything online is kind of anti-thetical to privacy which again IMO is a core tenet of how a skilled "hacker" might operate. By bringing identity into the conversation you start getting distracted by whos ideas you hear and not the merit of the ideas alone.
There was never a compatibility issue with cointerculture and hacking because in all reality machines give 0 shits about who you are. its all syntax, and if you're technically correct thats all that matters!
They way you're looking at this is more inline with political rhetoric than a hacker my friend.
Everything is political, my friend. Hacker culture was never apolitical, it lived off the fat of the military-industrial complex and was a product of the politics of its day.
Allison Parrish did a great job of deconstructing the idea of hacker culture as an idyllic metritocracy independent of politics or bias, exposing its more problematic elements, and proposing an alternative value system: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting...
I never said anything about politics though? You brought them up.
A makeshift culture built mainly around documents pilfered from dumosters and why not? Doesnt really sound like living off the fat of the mil-industry complex when that same institution was arresting and booking the protohackers without serious reason or cause.
I am as pro-LGBTQ+ and pro- any minority and sexual identity. Live and let live is my motto.
But either yours is a subtle attempt at satire, or whatever you have listed here is not fearless self-expression and progressive thought, but just newspeak and dystopian conformism. Whatever this is, it is not freedom of thought and expression.
I will fight against any racist and any bigot. Whether they argue against anyone's right of self-expression and identity, or whether they impose their opinion and self-identity upon others.
I assume this to be a minority opinion, but since we're talking about hacker culture, let me argue in favour of the true hacker spirit: the one where only code and curiosity counts, not bloody politics and rules. That ain't no hacker culture, sorry. We used to bond through beautiful code and cheeky pseudonyms, not through flags and political affiliations. Hackers used to despise politics, code of conducts and hierarchy.
In true anti-conformist spirit let me say: fuck that shit. Get your politics and slogans out of my computer. I only wanna hear about your code.
Lol… this is utter lunacy. I’m totally accepting of other sexual and gender orientations, live and let live. But this drivel has made me not want to write rust, ever, knowing that it has become a cesspool of identity politics instead of a professional endeavour.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 67.7 ms ] thread> As a C̶i̶s̶h̶e̶t̶ jew you will probably also have to listen more than talk when it comes to political, ethical, or policy topics within the community
Current practice in community building, especially in tech, is to prioritize the safety of the marginalized over the comfort of the privileged.
There was never a compatibility issue with cointerculture and hacking because in all reality machines give 0 shits about who you are. its all syntax, and if you're technically correct thats all that matters!
They way you're looking at this is more inline with political rhetoric than a hacker my friend.
Allison Parrish did a great job of deconstructing the idea of hacker culture as an idyllic metritocracy independent of politics or bias, exposing its more problematic elements, and proposing an alternative value system: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting...
A makeshift culture built mainly around documents pilfered from dumosters and why not? Doesnt really sound like living off the fat of the mil-industry complex when that same institution was arresting and booking the protohackers without serious reason or cause.
But either yours is a subtle attempt at satire, or whatever you have listed here is not fearless self-expression and progressive thought, but just newspeak and dystopian conformism. Whatever this is, it is not freedom of thought and expression.
I will fight against any racist and any bigot. Whether they argue against anyone's right of self-expression and identity, or whether they impose their opinion and self-identity upon others.
I assume this to be a minority opinion, but since we're talking about hacker culture, let me argue in favour of the true hacker spirit: the one where only code and curiosity counts, not bloody politics and rules. That ain't no hacker culture, sorry. We used to bond through beautiful code and cheeky pseudonyms, not through flags and political affiliations. Hackers used to despise politics, code of conducts and hierarchy.
In true anti-conformist spirit let me say: fuck that shit. Get your politics and slogans out of my computer. I only wanna hear about your code.